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20:21 The United States Government Just Told the Supreme Court the AR-15 Bans Are Unconstitutional
Supreme Court
19:12 The Ratchet Effect — Why the NFA's Collapse Is Built to Be Permanent
Supreme Court
19:19 Akhil Reed Amar's Fourteenth Amendment Case for the AR-15
Supreme Court
10:58 Four Pardons, One Lesson: Clemency Reaches What NFA Litigation Cannot
Circuit Court
18:38 DOJ's Virgin Islands Complaint: Protected Arms Cannot Be Registered, Period
District Court
19:21 United States v. Berger — Why Losing on Machine Guns Is Good News for the Second Amendment
federal-appellate
16:55 Standing Doctrine Cuts Both Ways — What the White House Stay Teaches the Second Amendment
Supreme Court
13:39 Trump Backs the Ruling That Gutted Biden's Frame-or-Receiver Rule
Supreme Court
25:45 ATF Director Cekada Speaks on NFA Enforcement — A Promise Is Not a Judgment
District Court
19:47 The People Decide — The Overlooked Argument Buried in the AR-15 Brief
Supreme Court
19:28 The Anti-Smuggling Rule: Why Barrett's Wolford Concurrence Decides the AR-15 Ban Cases
Supreme Court
18:47 The Brief Is In: Petitioners File Their Opening Argument at the Supreme Court in Viramontes and Grant
Supreme Court
19:23 40 Million AR-15s — And the Government Still Has to Prove They Are Unusual
Supreme Court
15:42 The CDC's Reversal on Defensive Gun Use Is an Admission Against Interest
Supreme Court
20:38 Entrapment by Estoppel — The Due Process Defense That Backs Up the Hendrix Injunction
Supreme Court
20:50 Every Month the Texas Injunction Stands, Blue-State Suppressor Bans Get Weaker
Supreme Court
19:59 Defense Distributed's Standing Holding Will Outlive Its Merits Holding
District Court
19:42 The Right to Make Your Own Gun Just Won in Federal Court
District Court
17:04 The Road From One Texas Judgment to a Nationwide End of NFA Registration
District Court
18:43 Kauai County Concedes in Brown v. Kauai County Permit-Delay Suit
District Court
25:29 DOJ Has Until August 21 to Answer the Only NFA Question That Matters
District Court
15:08 The Post Office Gun Ban Was Never What the Government Said It Was
District Court
19:37 The Justice Department Let the Clock Run Out — and Two Suppressors Changed Hands at Midnight
District Court
15:14 Justice Alito Is Staying — and the AR-15 Cases Just Got Better
Supreme Court
30:48 Mapping the NFA Tax Fight — Two Wins, Two Pending Cases, and Fifteen States on the Sidelines
District Court
19:38 ATF Director Cekada Defends Deregulation — and the Supreme Court's Dangerousness Doctrine Backs Him Up
Supreme Court
21:56 The Silencer Shop NFA Win Didn't Free Everyone — Here's Who The Injunction Actually Protects
District Court
17:40 DOJ Moves to Argue Against Massachusetts's Handgun Ban in Disguise
Circuit Court
17:37 A Federal Judge Just Declared the NFA Unconstitutional — And Never Touched the Second Amendment
District Court
15:56 Third Circuit Freezes Its Own AR-15 Victory — Why That May Be the Smartest Move in Cheeseman v. Davenport
Circuit Court
15:59 Montgomery County, Maryland, Banned Guns in Houses of Worship — and Drew a Lawsuit and a DOJ Ultimatum in the Same Week
District Court
12:50 New Jersey's Emergency Motion to Stay the Third Circuit's AR-15 Ruling
Circuit Court
11:21 Colorado's Targeted Gun Tax Survives a Motion to Dismiss — the Constitutional Fight Is Just Getting Started
State Court
18:57 Bruen Wasn't the Landmark — Heller Was, and Rahimi Just Proved It
Supreme Court
23:05 DOJ's New Brown v. ATF Brief Ignores Wolford v. Lopez — and Stretches a 1939 Shotgun Case to Cover Rifles
District Court
19:13 CMP's Semi-Automatic M14 Sale Bolsters the Common-Use Case for AR-15s at the Supreme Court
Supreme Court
19:28 Jouppi v. Alaska: An Eighth Amendment Forfeiture Case That Is Really a Second Amendment Case
Supreme Court
18:09 New Jersey's Safe-Storage Proposed Workaround Should Be Dead-on-Arrival
Circuit Court
14:27 DOJ Moves to Block the Virgin Islands' New AR-15 and Magazine Ban
District Court
21:18 Five Things to Watch as Viramontes and Grant Head to the Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
16:49 Maryland Banned the Glock — Now a Federal Lawsuit Aims to Bury SB 334
Federal District Court
17:59 Fifth Circuit Takes A Major Gun Case En Banc — But the Issue Isn't the Second Amendment
Federal Circuit Court
17:22 Hawaii's Top Court Throws a Tantrum — and Proves Why the Spirit of Aloha Lost
State Supreme Court
19:22 A Biden Appointee Wrote the Opinion Striking Down New Jersey's AR-15 Ban — and It Changes the Supreme Court Fight
Circuit Court
17:01 Judge VanDyke Tells the Supreme Court: Bench-Slap the Ninth Circuit on the Second Amendment
Federal Circuit Court
16:45 The En Banc Third Circuit Strikes Down New Jersey's Semi-Automatic Rifle and Magazine Bans
Circuit Court
12:54 The DOJ Just Dropped Its Post Office Appeal — and Made the 2A Carry Win Permanent
District Court
19:17 Delaware Is Trying to Outrun a Ruling the Third Circuit Already Made
District Court
14:24 Justice Barrett's Testimony on Threats to Her Family Makes the Case for the Second Amendment
Supreme Court
13:11 Lindsey Graham's Second Amendment Legacy: The Senator Who Built the Court
Supreme Court
18:19 Justice Barrett's Wolford Footnote Is About to Take Down New Jersey's AR-15 Ban
Supreme Court
16:37 The Supreme Court's 6-3 Campaign Finance Ruling Doubles as a Second Amendment Blueprint
Supreme Court
26:55 The Seventh Circuit Upheld Illinois's Gun Ban by Truncating Bruen
Circuit Court of Appeals
19:58 United States v. Hemani Just Vindicated My No-Trial Theory of Second Amendment Litigation
Supreme Court
16:05 Calce v. City of New York: The Stun Gun Case That's Caetano 2.0
Supreme Court
17:01 D.C. Circuit Revives the Metro Gun Ban Challenge in Angelo v. District of Columbia
Circuit Court of Appeals
20:23 The Third Circuit Just Tipped Its Hand — New Order in the New Jersey AR-15 Ban Case Signals a Ruling Is Coming
Circuit Court
18:01 Why the Supreme Court Took Two AR-15 Cases — The Strategy Behind the Viramontes and Grant Cert Grants
Supreme Court
5:08 Trump v. Barbara Leaves Congress a Path — and the Women's-Sports Ruling Hands the Question Back to the States
Supreme Court
6:18 On America's 250th Birthday, a President Said What Lexington and Concord Already Proved
19:09 United States v. Rose: A Second Amendment Skeptic Embraces the Present-Danger Rule
Court of Appeals
16:58 Justice Kavanaugh Just Said the Second Amendment Isn't Trapped in Amber
Supreme Court
18:10 I Called the AR-15 Cert Grant Weeks Ago — the One-Year Wait Was Strategy, Not a Snub
Supreme Court
17:18 DOJ's New Virginia Lawsuit Just Closed a Quiet Standing Trap on the AR-15 Ban
Supreme Court
15:53 SCOTUS Overrules Humphrey's Executor: Trump Can Now Fire the Deep State
Supreme Court
10:10 The Supreme Court Just Agreed to Decide Whether AR-15s Can Be Banned
Supreme Court
15:49 SCOTUS Ends TPS for Haiti and Syria — and Bars Judges From Second-Guessing It
Supreme Court
16:47 The Supreme Court Just Held You Must Actually Enter the Country to Claim Asylum — and the Second Amendment Is the Reason It Matters
Supreme Court
17:23 The Easter Eggs in Wolford — How One Sentence About 'Any Form of Arms' Threatens Every Modern Gun Control Law
Supreme Court
19:31 SCOTUS's Wolford Ripple Hits the AR-15 — 2A Attorneys Tell Federal Appeals Court that New Jersey's Ban Is Finished
Supreme Court
19:45 Justice Jackson's One-Way Ratchet — How a Dissent Became the Second Amendment's Best Witness
Supreme Court
17:06 The Spirit of Aloha Cannot Shrink the Second Amendment — Alito's Wolford Opinion and the DOJ Civil Rights Win
Supreme Court
22:10 1791, Not 1868: The Second Amendment Question the Supreme Court Refuses to Answer
Supreme Court
19:42 The Vampire Rule Gets a Stake Through the Heart — SCOTUS Strikes Hawaii's Carry Ban in Wolford v. Lopez
Supreme Court
12:57 BREAKING: Trump DOJ Threatens to Sue California Over Its Glock Ban and Handgun Roster
Supreme Court
19:49 The Hemani Gamble: A 9-0 Win the Government Never Should Have Risked
Supreme Court
23:29 Hemani's Quiet Bombshell: 'Pre-Deprivation Process' and the Case Against Red Flag Laws
Supreme Court
22:24 How the SCOTUS's Hemani Decision Helps 2A Win the Virginia AR-15 Fight
Supreme Court
12:30 Justice Jackson Calls Bruen 'Unworkable.' Applying History Is the Entire Job.
Supreme Court
14:18 The Fifth Circuit Says Suppressors Are Arms — and Then Affirms the Conviction Anyway
Federal Appeals Court
18:22 Florida's Young-Adult Carry Ban Falls — Eubanks and the Brick-by-Brick Win for 18-to-20-Year-Olds
State Appeals Court
Coming Soon The Supreme Court in Hemani Says 'No' (Again) to Interest Balancing and Reaffirms Bruen's Text First, History Second Methodology
Supreme Court
18:04 U.S. Supreme Court Rules in US v. Hemani that Federal Drug-User Gun Ban Falls
Supreme Court
19:54 The Militia Clause Is Not a Mandate for Military Weapons — Curtis v. Katz
State Court
19:08 SCOTUS Denies Cert in NSSF v. James — New York's Gun-Industry Liability Law Stands
Supreme Court
16:18 SCOTUS Denies Cert in Corbett v. Hochul — Here's Why You Shouldn't Panic
Supreme Court
16:41 Federal Court Vacates ATF's Engaged-in-the-Business Rule — For Every American
District Court
18:10 The "Trump Judge" Who Isn't — How the Blue Slip Tradition Shapes Your Federal Courts
District Court
18:57 Virginia's Assault-Firearms Brief Gets the State Constitution Wrong
State Court
17:26 Report Says USPS Just Banned Suppressor Shipping — and It's Illegal on Two Counts
Supreme Court
16:50 SCOTUS Looks Away: The AR-15 Hat Case and the Heckler's Veto in the Classroom
Supreme Court
19:09 The Supreme Court's Sneaky Important 2A Ruling is a Big Win for Gun Rights
Supreme Court
19:45 The Fifth Circuit's Squire Ruling Is a Second Amendment Loss Worth Celebrating
Circuit Court
17:02 Florida's Gun Waiting Period Is Unconstitutional as its Attorney General Uthmeier Concedes
District Court
19:04 Ninth Circuit's DeBorba Ruling Just Poisoned the NFA Suppressor Fight
Circuit Court
15:23 SCOTUS 6-3 Emergency Stay Restores Alabama's Republican Map and Clears the Runway for a GOP November Win
Supreme Court
18:06 Anti-Gun Senators Try to Veto Trump's Intelligence Pick — The Constitution Has Something to Say About That
Supreme Court
19:34 Two Judges Tried to Command the Army — and the Real Lesson Is About the Second Amendment
Circuit Court
17:37 Justice Thomas Just Sent a Signal on the Second Amendment — and His Signals Have a Habit of Coming True
Supreme Court
15:04 A Swatting Hoax Targeted Justice Barrett's Home — and It Could Have Gotten Someone Killed
Supreme Court
19:14 Ten Virginia Prosecutors Just Refused to Enforce Spanberger's Gun Ban — and They're Dead Right
Supreme Court
18:09 An 8-1 Smackdown in Fernandez v. United States — and Why Justice Jackson Keeps Dissenting Alone
Supreme Court
15:51 NRA, FPC, and SAF Sue Maryland Over Its Glock Ban — And the Legal Case Is Overwhelming
District Court
14:50 Cornyn Is Gone — And the BSCA Betrayers Are Almost All Gone With Him
Supreme Court
17:39 The Supreme Court Just Built the Case for Nationwide Concealed Carry — in a Trucking Decision
Supreme Court
15:41 House Democrats Want to Break You — A Memorial Day Warning
16:06 Virginia Has Two Constitutions That Can Kill Its 'Assault Weapons' Ban — and the State One Goes Back to 1776
Supreme Court
18:10 The Fifth Circuit Just Killed the Expert-Witness Shakedown — Posner's Legislative-Facts Rule Comes for the Second Amendment
Circuit Court
20:44 SAF and FPC Just Petitioned SCOTUS on Sensitive Places — Here's the Full 2A Docket
Supreme Court
14:21 Republicans Hold the Georgia Supreme Court — and That Matters for the Second Amendment
State Court
19:47 The Fifth Circuit Just Ran Heller and Bruen Through a Ten Commandments Case — And Quoted Joseph Story
Circuit Court
19:50 Bill Cassidy Loses His Primary — and the BSCA Betrayal Finally Gets Its Bill
Supreme Court
20:30 Second Circuit Kills New York's 'Vampire Rule' — and Judge Menashi's Dissent Could Reshape the Parks Doctrine
Circuit Court
19:52 Why the US Supreme Court Skipped AR-15s This Term — And Why It's Coming
Supreme Court
9:54 SCOTUS Kills Virginia's 10-1 Gerrymander — 9-0, Not a Single Dissent
State Supreme Court
19:06 Hoisted on Their Own Petard — How the Supreme Court's Mifepristone Stay Just Built the Case for Mailing Handguns
Supreme Court
12:03 Trump DOJ Expands DC Lawsuit — Now Targeting the Suppressor Ban Too
District Court
19:25 Virginia's Assault Weapons Ban Is Already Backfiring — Spanberger Just Put AR-15s on a Fast Track to SCOTUS
District Court
12:51 Why the Third Circuit Is Sitting on Cheeseman and Koons — They're Waiting on Wolford and Hemani
Federal Circuit Court
15:25 Two Fronts Open Against Illegal Gun Registries — Uthmeier Sues Jacksonville, GOA Goes After ATF
Federal Agency
19:29 SCOTUS Clears Alabama in Allen v. Caster — A 6-3 Lifeline for the Second Amendment House Majority
Supreme Court
19:42 Virginia Supreme Court Kills the 10-1 Gerrymander — and Democrats Float Firing Every Justice
State Supreme Court
17:01 Justice Thomas Hits #2 on the All-Time SCOTUS Tenure List — and the 2A Owes Him Everything
Supreme Court
19:43 Trump's ATF Is Ripping Up Biden's Gun-Control Rulebook — Page by Page
Supreme Court
5:29 On Fox & Friends First: The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, a Reckless Judge, and Meta's Child-Safety Day of Reckoning
Federal district court
10:05 Hawaii Capitulates: Non-Residents Win the Right to Apply for Concealed Carry in Solinsky v. Lopez
District Court
15:41 DOJ Sues Colorado and Denver — and Hoists Them on Their Own Petard
Federal District Court
11:48 Trump DOJ Targets AR-15 Bans — And Predicts SCOTUS Will Strike Them Nationwide
Supreme Court
16:51 KBJ's Own Dissent May Sink the Virginia Redistricting Power Grab
Supreme Court
19:58 SCOTUS Clears the Way in Louisiana v. Callais — An 8-1 Mandate Order That Has Just Reshaped the 2026 Midterms and the Second Amendment
Supreme Court
15:05 Amtrak's Lockbox Proposal Is a 2A Win — But the Constitution Demands More Than a Lockbox
17:18 The Trump DOJ Just Told Denver: Repeal Your 37-Year AR-15 Ban — or We'll See You in Court
District Court
19:33 Inside the ATF Press Conference: Blanche's Mandate, Cekada's Reform Package, Leider's Architecture
18:57 Fifth Circuit Denies En Banc in Wilson — and Why That Is the Right Outcome for the Second Amendment Right Now
Court of Appeals
15:32 Unanimous Supreme Court Donor-List Win — Why Every 2A Organization Should Be Cheering
Supreme Court
15:03 ATF Drops 34 Proposed Rule Changes the Day Cekada Is Confirmed
Supreme Court
19:46 SCOTUS Just Saved the Midterms — and the Second Amendment
Supreme Court
16:17 The Left's Security Complaints at the Correspondents' Dinner Are a Gift to the Second Amendment
Supreme Court
19:57 Tennessee's Deadly-Force Debate and the Missing Half of the Second Amendment
19:07 White House Dinner Attack Alters 2A 'Gun Free Zones' Fight
Supreme Court
19:42 DOJ 2A Error Demonstrates Why Team Trump Needs a 2nd Amendment Czar Now to Thwart the Deep State
Supreme Court
19:24 Where the Trump DOJ Is Headed on the Second Amendment: A Post-NRA Convention Read
Supreme Court
17:45 What the Virginia Redistricting Fight Teaches the Second Amendment Movement
15:18 Hemingway's Alito Book Reports Kagan-Breyer Dobbs Clash: 2A Implications
supreme-court
12:27 SCOTUS Denies Cert in Gardner and Peterson: Setback for Travelers and Suppressor Owners
supreme-court
13:02 Trump DOJ Opens 2A Unit Hiring to Those Living Outside DC Swamp
18:44 Senate Testimony Exposes the ATF's Billion-Record Gun Registry
federal-appellate
9:05 Harmeet Dhillon Warns Virginia Over AR-15 Ban, Calls for More Second Amendment Lawyers at DOJ
supreme-court
17:43 Congressman Thomas Massie Makes the Case for the Second Amendment's Anti-Tyranny Purpose Before the U.S. Senate
federal-supreme
11:52 DOJ Signals Reversal on Biden-Era Frame and Receiver Rule After Gun Owners of America Pressure
federal-district
19:33 The Second Circuit's Stun Gun Ruling: How Burden-Shifting Nullifies the Second Amendment
federal-appellate
18:58 Virginia's Ghost Gun Ban Has No Historical Foundation — and America's Founders Would Have Agreed
18:31 Why the Trump DOJ's Statement on the Frame-or-Receiver Rule May Not Mean What You Think
federal-district
13:20 DOJ Fires a Shot Across Virginia's Bow: Civil Rights Division Threatens Lawsuit Over AR-15 Ban
18:27 The Trump DOJ Keeps Getting Second Amendment Methodology Wrong — and It Matters
federal-appellate
19:44 The Trump DOJ's Flawed Brief Against Suppressors and Short-Barreled Rifles in Brown v. ATF
federal-district
13:58 Trump's FY 2027 Budget Puts Second Amendment Front and Center
18:14 The First Circuit's Incoherent Ruling on Maine's Waiting Period in Beckwith v. Frey
federal-appellate
19:02 The Trump DOJ's Baffling Error in the Benson Magazine Ban Case
state-appellate
14:18 USPS Moves to Allow Handgun Mailing After DOJ Declares Nearly Century-Old Ban Unconstitutional
19:46 Who Should Replace Pam Bondi as Attorney General? A Second Amendment Analysis
supreme-court
12:05 Hegseth Ends Gun-Free Zones on Military Bases: A Second Amendment Milestone
9:43 Trump Posts Mark Smith's Fox News Interview on Birthright Citizenship — Here's Why It Matters
supreme-court
16:38 DOJ Fires Back at DC: Section 12601 Protects the Second Amendment, Too
federal-district
21:47 Two SCOTUS Cases, One Historic Term — What Hemani and Wolford Mean for Your Gun Rights
Supreme Court
19:51 Pam Bondi Fired: A Second Amendment Scorecard and the Solicitor General Problem
supreme-court
12:49 The Labeling Game Is Over: How Chiles v. Salazar Destroys the 'Assault Weapon' Myth
supreme-court
11:40 8-1 SCOTUS Win in Chiles v. Salazar — Your License Doesn't Waive Your Rights
Supreme Court
15:11 The 14th Amendment Actually Says What Trump Says It Says — Here's the History
Supreme Court
13:47 The Biggest SCOTUS Win of Trump's Career Is Coming — Birthright Citizenship
Supreme Court
10:30 "The Trend Is Our Friend" — Stephen Halbrook on How Far We've Come on the Second Amendment
Supreme Court
19:15 Federal Judge Gets 'Sensitive Places' Wrong in Texas Gun-Free Zone Ruling
District Court
17:57 The Case That Could Unlock Nationwide Concealed Carry: Gardner v. Maryland at SCOTUS
Supreme Court
19:26 The Second Circuit's Stun Gun Shell Game — Shifting the Burden to Kill the Second Amendment
Circuit Court
16:37 SCOTUS Just Handed the Gun Industry a 9-0 Win — They Just Don't Know It Yet
Supreme Court
18:48 DC Just Got Spanked: Benson Win Sets Up the Magazine Ban Circuit Split SCOTUS Needs
State/DC Court of Appeals
15:18 Virginia Democrats Are Playing With Fire: Nine Gun-Control Bills May Torch Their Redistricting Gambit
19:36 The Trump DOJ Pistol Brace Brief Is Not the Crackdown Social Media Says It Is
Federal District
15:54 DOJ's Harmeet Dhillon Is Watching Virginia — and That's Very Good News for Gun Owners
Supreme Court
16:48 FPC Fires a Direct Shot at New York's Times Square Gun Ban
Federal District
18:16 FPC v. Bondi: Judge O'Connor Expands Post Office Injunction to All FPC and SAF Members — What It Means in Practice
Federal District
18:51 DC Scrambles to Save Its Magazine Ban — But the Circuit Split Is Already Done
Federal Appellate
19:37 New Jersey Panics Over Benson — and Reveals a Fatal Contradiction
Federal Appellate
18:46 Federal Court Expands Post Office Carry Injunction — FPC and SAF Members Win Big
Federal District
16:03 Rhode v. Bonta — The Ninth Circuit Just Drew an 8–3 Republican En Banc Panel on California's Ammo Background Check Law
Federal Appellate
16:43 DOJ Policy Change Drives Huge 2A Win — DC's Magazine Ban Is Crumbling
Federal Appellate
12:15 What Makes a 'Sensitive Place' Constitutional? Halbrook and the Government Security Principle
Supreme Court
12:03 Judge VanDyke's Blistering Dissent Forces the Ninth Circuit to Face Reality
Federal Appellate
19:33 Temple Gun Club v. Bondi — The Federal Machine Gun Ban Has No Constitutional Hook
Federal District
18:29 Gardner v. Maryland: The Second Amendment Case That Could Unlock Nationwide Interstate Travel With a Firearm
Supreme Court
15:43 The Wait Is Over: Clement & Murphy Force the Supreme Court's Hand on Magazine Bans
Supreme Court
18:57 The NFA Hits the Supreme Court — Peterson v. United States Is the Case to Watch
Supreme Court
19:30 DC Declares Emergency After Court Strikes Its Magazine Ban — and the Panic Is Justified
District Court
14:56 Virginia Just Passed an AR-15 Ban — and the Supreme Court Bears Some Blame
Supreme Court
16:00 Solinsky v. Lopez: The Next Brick in the Wall for Nationwide Carry
District Court
15:48 Benson v. United States Is Already Paying Dividends — at the Supreme Court
Supreme Court
19:10 The Ninth Circuit's Immigration Fight Exposes the Anti-Gun Crowd's Glaring Hypocrisy
Circuit Court
19:45 Federal Court Strikes D.C. Magazine Ban — and Creates the Circuit Split We've Been Waiting For
State Court
20:05 United States v. Hemani: Why the Government's 922(g)(3) Case Falls Apart at SCOTUS
Supreme Court
15:06 SCOTUS Goes 9-0 in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi — Federal Courts Can No Longer Reopen Asylum Cases
Supreme Court
17:09 SCOTUS Shuts Down New York's Racial Gerrymander 6-3 — Big Win for the Midterms
Supreme Court
47:10 Stephen Halbrook: The Hughes Amendment Was Always Weaker Than ATF Pretended
Supreme Court
16:16 SCOTUS Vindicates Judge Benitez — and Delivers a Lesson for 2A Litigation
Supreme Court
18:42 United States v. Hemani Oral Argument: A Confusing Day That Went Better Than Expected
Supreme Court
20:44 The Solicitor General Just Handed the Supreme Court the Worst Possible 2A Case — United States v. Hemani
Supreme Court
26:34 The ATF Invented the Modern Machine Gun Ban — and Loper Bright May Undo It
Supreme Court
17:18 Villarreal v. Texas Tells Us Exactly Who's Writing Callais — and Why That's a Massive Second Amendment Win
Supreme Court
19:46 West Virginia's Machine Gun Bill Could Destroy the Entire Hughes Amendment
Supreme Court
18:42 SCOTUS Just Drew the Line That Could End NFA Registration — Learning Resources v. Trump
Supreme Court
19:00 West Virginia's Machine Gun Bill Is Legally Sound — Here's Why
Supreme Court
18:56 Florida Concedes: Non-Violent Felons Cannot Be Categorically Disarmed
State Court
19:28 Can the Government Ban Transgender Individuals from Owning Guns? Here's the Legal Answer.
Supreme Court
19:42 Anti-Gunners Sabotage Themselves in Schoenthal v. Raoul — And It's Beautiful
Supreme Court
16:11 Trump DOJ and VA End Three-Decade NICS Abuse — 300,000 Veterans Get Their Rights Back
Supreme Court
19:33 Koons & Siegel v. Platkin: The Third Circuit Takes On Gun-Free Zone Doctrine
Circuit Court
18:38 Koons v. Platkin En Banc: The Third Circuit's Fight Over Whether 1791 or 1868 Controls the Second Amendment
Circuit Court
19:31 Justice Scalia's Own Voice: The Heller Bench Announcement, Ten Years After His Death
Supreme Court
19:28 The Trump DOJ Just Filed a Flawed NFA Brief — Here's What Went Wrong
District Court
19:27 New Jersey Embarrassed at Third Circuit En Banc — A Ghost Statute and a 2A Reckoning
Circuit Court
13:52 If America Loses the AI War, the Second Amendment Goes With It
16:18 New Hampshire HB 1793 Just Passed the House — Campus Carry Is Coming
State Court
41:46 California's 3D Printer Lawsuit Against Gatalog Is a First Amendment Disaster Waiting to Happen
Supreme Court
18:00 Koons & Siegel Head to Third Circuit En Banc — New Historical Study Proves Sensitive-Places Bans Require Government Security
Circuit Court
18:29 Learn from the Gay Rights Movement: The Second Amendment Needs Sympathetic Rights Claimants and Plaintiffs
Supreme Court
15:33 Fifth Circuit Rules Illegal Aliens Must Be Detained Without Bond — A Major Win for Trump's Immigration Agenda
Circuit Court
19:13 Virginia Passes AR-15 Ban — and It Fails the Heller Test on Day One
Supreme Court
19:15 Virginia's HB 217 Tries to Disarm 18–20-Year-Olds — and the Historical Record Destroys It
State Court
15:14 Fourth Circuit Vacates DEI Injunction — A Big Win for Trump and the Rule of Law
Circuit Court
15:53 Judge Willett's One-Man Mission to Revive the Structural Constitution
Circuit Court
19:53 Jeanine Pirro's DC Carry Warning — What She Got Wrong, What She Got Right, and What It Reveals
Supreme Court
37:31 Peter Schweizer's Invisible Coup: How Weaponized Immigration Threatens the Second Amendment
Supreme Court
17:48 Hawaii's Pre-Emptive Retreat: SB3041 Is Just the Vampire Rule With a Neon Sign
Supreme Court
19:23 Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Lifetime Gun Ban for Meth Possession — *United States v. Hembree*
Circuit Court
6:36 CBS News Interview: Carrying at a Protest Is Your Right — Until You Cross the Line
Circuit Court
20:50 Virginia Court Blocks Democrat Mid-Decade Redistricting Power Grab
State Court
19:01 Trump DOJ Goes to War on Massachusetts's Handgun Roster — and Gets the Bruen Methodology Right
Circuit Court
18:58 Bost v. Illinois: SCOTUS Just Slammed the Door on the Left's Standing Dodge
Supreme Court
17:45 The Trump DOJ Fires Back at Virginia's Magazine Ban
Supreme Court
15:44 Eighth Circuit Slaps Down Minneapolis Immigration Injunction — A Win for Separation of Powers
Circuit Court
12:59 Trump Administration Stands Up for the Second Amendment — and Gets It Mostly Right
Supreme Court
16:41 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Defends Black Codes as Second Amendment Precedent in Wolford v. Lopez
Supreme Court
19:38 Kipke v. Moore and the Right to Carry at Protests — What the Fourth Circuit Got Wrong
Circuit Court
16:17 Wolford v. Lopez: The Supreme Court Looks Ready to Bury Hawaii's Vampire Rule
Supreme Court
19:07 SCOTUS Hears Wolford v. Lopez — Hawaii's 'Vampire Rule' Is on Life Support
Supreme Court
11:11 PBS News Weekend Is Off the Air — and That's a Win for the Second Amendment
17:19 Sheriff Judd Lays Out Why Sanctuary Cities Are the Real ICE Problem
Supreme Court
19:33 The OLC Memo's Hidden Payload: Five Second Amendment Rights the Media Missed
Supreme Court
14:12 DOJ Declares 18 U.S.C. § 1715 Unconstitutional — and It's a Bigger Deal Than You Think
Supreme Court
18:33 The Machine Gun Ban's Achilles' Heel — United States v. Wilson Opens the Door
Circuit Court
17:21 Federal Judges Make the Case for Nationwide Carry — and Accidentally Make Our Case Too
Circuit Court
19:35 When the Left Sides With Criminals: What the ICE Backlash Tells Us About the Second Amendment
State Court
19:53 Trump DOJ Steps Into Rhode v. Bonta — and the Stakes Go Way Beyond Ammo
Circuit Court
19:05 Tennessee's Appeal Brief in Hughes v. Lee Gets the History Dead Wrong
State Court
6:03 The Maduro Capture Is an Arrest, Not a Kidnapping — and Here's Why That Defense Fails
District Court
16:35 DOJ Enters Rhode v. Bonta — and Calls California's Ammo Background Check an Unconstitutional Outlier
Circuit Court
18:47 Pam Bondi Is Not Coming for Your Machine Gun — The Maduro Indictment Explained
District Court
19:25 Trump Arrests Maduro — and the NFA Machine Gun Charge Is Not the Win You Think It Is
District Court
15:17 Ninth Circuit Strikes Down California's Open Carry Ban in Baird v. Bonta
Circuit Court
16:40 New York's New Mayor Just Declared War on Rugged Individualism — and That Means Your Guns
17:11 Trump DOJ Sues Virginia Over Illegal Alien In-State Tuition — and the Second Amendment Stakes Are Real
District Court
19:23 DOJ Defends the Federal Switchblade Act in Knife Rights v. Bondi — And the Brief Cannot Be Squared With Heller
Circuit Court
15:50 McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission: The First Amendment Answer to Mandatory Social Media ID
Supreme Court
16:47 Judge Benitez Just Saved California Parents — A Class-Wide Injunction in Mirabelli v. Olson
District Court
17:57 The Anti-Gunners Just Proved Our Case: 717 Million 11+ Round Magazines and the End of the 'Unusual' Argument
Supreme Court
17:29 Tenth Circuit Locks In Ortega v. Grisham — New Mexico's 7-Day Waiting Period Stays Dead
Circuit Court
18:06 DOJ Sues DC Over Its AR-15 Ban — The First Affirmative 2A Lawsuit From Bondi and Dhillon's New Civil Rights Section
District Court
13:19 The Cleanest Explanation of Bruen Step Two I Have Heard — Professor J. Joel Alicea on Substantive vs. Incidental Features
Supreme Court
17:47 The Ninth Circuit Just Vindicated a Professor Who Refused to Read His University's Land Acknowledgment
Circuit Court
18:29 History, Not Hoplophobia: The Fifth Circuit Just Gutted 922(g)(1) As Applied to a Deadbeat Dad Who Paid
Circuit Court
12:26 Congress Could Revive Letters of Marque and Reprisal — Turning Privately Armed Americans Loose on the Cartels
18:39 The Office of Legal Counsel Just Killed a 28-Year-Old Welfare Loophole for Illegal Aliens
Supreme Court
10:51 Judge Hannah Dugan Convicted of Obstruction — and Acquitted on a Second Count
District Court
18:23 SCOTUS Calls for a Response in Schoenthal v. Raoul — Illinois Has to Defend Its Transit Carry Ban
Supreme Court
13:44 Bondi DOJ Sues the Virgin Islands — and Lights the Fuse on Every May-Issue Holdout Left
District Court
16:20 Judge Thapar Just Wrote the Definitive Opinion on Why Illegal Aliens Have No Second Amendment Rights
Circuit Court
14:44 Why Immigration Policy Is Second Amendment Policy
17:21 Brown University's Gun-Free Zone Turned a Classroom Into a Kill Zone
15:26 Florida's Open Carry Ban Is Dead: McDaniels, the AG, and a Federal Settlement Finish the Job
Circuit Court
19:01 Third Circuit Grants En Banc Rehearing in Koons v. Platkin — New Jersey's Sensitive-Places Law Meets a Reconstituted Court
Circuit Court
14:44 The DOJ's New Second Amendment Section — and Why Personnel Is Policy
Circuit Court
11:52 Third Circuit Goes En Banc on New Jersey's AR-15 Ban — Before the Panel Even Rules
Court of Appeals
14:47 DOGE Deploys AI to Gut 50+ ATF Regulations — This Is the Deregulation Gun Owners Have Been Waiting For
16:04 Ninth Circuit Strikes Down California's Ammunition Background Check Law — Rhode v. Bonta
Circuit Court
13:27 Trump v. Boyle: SCOTUS Delivers 6–3 Win for Executive Power — and What It Means for Your Second Amendment Rights
Supreme Court
12:46 Gun Owners of America Sues to Kill the Prohibition-Era Federal Handgun Mail Ban
federal-district
16:27 Six Gun Rights Heavyweights File the Best Suppressor Complaint Ever Written — And New Jersey Is the Target
district-court
12:28 CBS CANCELS THE LATE SHOW — And the Second Amendment Is Winning the Culture War
18:17 NRA v. Vullo — The Second Circuit Just Neutered a 9–0 SCOTUS Win
Supreme Court
12:34 DOJ Revives 925(c) Rights-Restoration Program — and It Could Affect Millions
Circuit Court
15:39 The Biden Pistol Brace Rule Is Dead — Mock v. Bondi Makes It Official
District Court
14:21 Seventh Circuit Rules Unanimously: Illegal Aliens Have No Second Amendment Rights
Circuit Court
17:43 The Federal Law That Says You Can't Buy a Handgun Across State Lines — And Why It's Going to Lose
District Court
14:33 The CCW Choke Point: Six Games Anti-Gun States Play to Kill Your Carry Rights After Bruen
Supreme Court
13:16 SCOTUS Just Gave Trump the Green Light to Gut the Department of Education — 6-3
Supreme Court
17:45 The Epstein Files Firestorm: How a Trial Lawyer Actually Weighs the Evidence
21:05 The Tenth Circuit Hears the Machine-Gun Ban Case That Could Reshape the Second Amendment
Circuit Court
15:20 Second Circuit Tosses Biden DOJ's Election Meme Prosecution — Douglass Mackey Wins
federal-appeals
12:17 Obama-Appointed Judge Dismisses Lawsuit to Restore $820 Million in Anti-Gun Grants
district
17:06 Sixth Circuit Rules the Government Can't Just Keep Your Guns — Novak v. Federspiel
circuit
14:55 SCOTUS Grants 8–1 Stay in Trump v. AFGE — Federal Workforce Overhaul Cleared to Proceed
supreme-court
14:08 Ninth Circuit Spanks California's Gun Advertising Ban — Entire Statute Enjoined
circuit
13:15 Good Guys With Guns Stop a Mass Shooting — and Prove the Sensitive-Places Argument Wrong
18:12 The Big Beautiful Bill Just Handed Us the Key to Destroy NFA Registration
district-court
19:04 Barrett Eviscerates Jackson in Trump v. CASA — And the Second Amendment Stakes Are Enormous
Supreme Court
16:12 Trump DOJ Lets Landmark 18-to-20 Handgun Ruling Stand — A Precedent-Setting 2A Win
Court of Appeals
14:41 Philadelphia's Open-Carry Ban Just Got Struck Down — Here's Why It Matters
state-appellate
16:18 Ninth Circuit Unanimously Strikes California's One-Gun-a-Month Law
Federal Circuit Court
18:24 NFA Reform Deep Dive: How the Big Beautiful Bill Could Gut the 1934 Gun Tax Regime
Supreme Court
17:55 Fifth Circuit Withdraws Disastrous Peterson Suppressor Opinion
federal-appellate
Coming Soon Snope and Ocean State Tactical Denied — But Kavanaugh's Statement Rewrites the Endgame
supreme-court
Coming Soon For the First Time in American History, the DOJ Is Pushing for 2A Wins at the Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Coming Soon SCOTUS Lets Young Adult Carry Win Stand — Eighth Circuit Strikes Minnesota's Age Ban
supreme-court
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Court of Appeals
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Supreme Court
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supreme-court
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